Water of life, water of death: Pagan notions of water from antiquity to today

Deep Blue: Critical Reflections on Nature, Religion and Water

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 33-48

  Gerten, Dieter ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

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